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Friedenthal said that the California Court was very careful not to destroy the legality of minority programs in general. Race cannot enter into the admissions formula, but a set of criteria can be formulated to provide a "reasonable number of various minorities, given a large enough applicant pool...
...This may turn out to be a very good decision," he said. "It could take the evil of quotas out of the system and force admissions officers to define their criteria clearly as something more than just test scores...
...those in favor of maintaining these recruitment programs defend them to those who say that some standards of excellence will be compromised? One way is to refute the traditional criteria that those who holler "foul" go by. For instance, the National Examination Board which tests mostly memorized material rather than clinical ability, seems to be outmoded at a time when clinicians for poor, especially black areas, are in seriously short supply. The notion that scientific knowledge given during the first two years of med school is more difficult for some blacks than it is for some whites may be true...
...presidency, students turned away from politics and began to worry about careers. "They left for the summer talking about social change and came back in the fall talking about medical school," Wald says. Although one theory speculates that Harvard stopped admitting radicals, Jewett denies that admissions criteria changed at all; the change, he says, came in the applicant pool, as high school students began reflecting their parents' fears about the unemployment facing college graduates...
Ginn says the idea that Harvard graduates are no longer looking at social service vocations as career options--as they did in the late '60s--because they are not adequately lucrative, is a myth. In fact, social service is still considered an important criteria for jobs. But he suggests that graduates now are working on "a different schedule of issues, a different agenda for themselves" than simply finding a career and fitting into it. Many people, he points out, see law school as general training providing more insurance against the future. In the '60s, you had a choice between...